Mafia III Pre-order

JudgeDredd · October 07, 2016, 05:24:43 AM

Quote from: Ian C on October 07, 2016, 04:30:40 AM
Sorry - I was about to delete that. 'Don't shoot the messenger' and all that.

There's nothing at all wrong with you posting it Ian - if you've got information on the game that you think people should know, nothing at all wrong with sharing it. We're all big boys and can decided ourselves whether we're going to buy or not.

I had no idea how this was going to pan out - but the 2 previous iterations were so fantastic there was no way I wasn't going to buy this.

JudgeDredd · October 07, 2016, 05:25:31 AM

Quote from: Grim.Reaper on October 07, 2016, 04:35:47 AM
Quote from: Ian C on October 07, 2016, 04:30:40 AM
Sorry - I was about to delete that. 'Don't shoot the messenger' and all that.

No reason to delete it, people come to these posts looking for information. Doesn't mean everyone will agree with it, but still is someone's opinion,

^ Exactly O0

Ian C · October 07, 2016, 05:26:24 AM

Quote from: Grim.Reaper on October 07, 2016, 04:35:47 AM
Quote from: Ian C on October 07, 2016, 04:30:40 AM
Sorry - I was about to delete that. 'Don't shoot the messenger' and all that.

No reason to delete it, people come to these posts looking for information. Doesn't mean everyone will agree with it, but still is someone's opinion,

Sure, but still, I told this cat and now it's hates me.

JudgeDredd · October 07, 2016, 05:49:01 AM

Cats are fickle ;D

JudgeDredd · October 07, 2016, 10:16:30 AM

Well I'm 3 hours in and I'm loving it.

Story is great. Animations are great. Facial expressions, speech...Gameplay is what gameplay was in previous ones so no issues with that yet either.

The previous Mafia games, for me, have been about immersion and story.

I would take this chance to let you know that there's lots of cut scenes and they are pretty lengthy in places - but stay with them - they are great and key to the story. Don't do what I did and not take note - I lost who was who in places.

Car handling is like the previous two - which is ok...I eventually got used to how they handled and I will do here.

Graphics - I haven't managed to nail them down yet. It's a bit dark for me in places at times and also there's a lot of "bloom" - so I need to meddle. But otherwise, top notch. I have no idea what the issue with 30fps is about. It's running at 30fps on my system and looks and plays great.

So far this is hitting the spot.

JudgeDredd · October 07, 2016, 12:06:41 PM

Oh...and the music is fantastic

Grim.Reaper · October 07, 2016, 02:44:53 PM

Finally home! Time to give this thing a go....

Grim.Reaper · October 07, 2016, 04:28:23 PM

Just started it up....you definitely can tell its a console port, not necessarily a good or bad thing, just very obvious. Although graphics not out of this world, certainly good enough....music is real nice and so far the story is interesting to follow, but haven't gotten far. One thing I notice is all the drivers don't follow the rules of the road very well....have people in a turn right only lane going straight, people turning left in front of me when I am going straight, etc....its the wild west when driving:)

Grim.Reaper · October 07, 2016, 06:53:20 PM

So far so good....really liking the story and atmosphere. Got into my first big shootout, very satisfying, lots of killing:) I have had my controls get stuck here and there, nothing major but hopefully gets cleaned up a bit. Developer is supposed to have patch this weekend to also address the low FPS for those that care.

JudgeDredd · October 07, 2016, 11:56:16 PM

I'm getting a feeling this is more akin to Saints Row - what about you GR?

Open world with a few places to go in, baddies here and there as you go around the city, the city take over thing, calling your help in...all with a Mafia story.

Not a bad thing as Saints Row was a bloody fun game.

I will say this - and I don't think it gives too much away - one of the first things you do is stand in a soup kitchen handing out soup to people - which was as boring and shitty a task as the one where you're handing out cigarettes in Mafia II - and I thought "Yep - this is Mafia"....it seems it can't be a Mafia game without a shite mission in it. That was the only rubbish thing I came across and it did make me wonder if the dev had put it in as an homage

The facial expressions and textures are superb as is the story.

Well I played it for 6 hours yesterday and it was great fun. I'll see what the next 6 hours brings.

Grim.Reaper · October 08, 2016, 02:45:26 AM

Quote from: JudgeDredd on October 07, 2016, 11:56:16 PM
I'm getting a feeling this is more akin to Saints Row - what about you GR?

Open world with a few places to go in, baddies here and there as you go around the city, the city take over thing, calling your help in...all with a Mafia story.

Not a bad thing as Saints Row was a bloody fun game.

I will say this - and I don't think it gives too much away - one of the first things you do is stand in a soup kitchen handing out soup to people - which was as boring and shitty a task as the one where you're handing out cigarettes in Mafia II - and I thought "Yep - this is Mafia"....it seems it can't be a Mafia game without a shite mission in it. That was the only rubbish thing I came across and it did make me wonder if the dev had put it in as an homage

The facial expressions and textures are superb as is the story.

Well I played it for 6 hours yesterday and it was great fun. I'll see what the next 6 hours brings.

Interestingly enough, never really have played Saints Row, do have SR4 from some free promotion but looking at my Steam account only played 15 minutes:)

I really like the driving aspect, not too hard to control and just feels right, except for the other cars on the road not necessarily obeying the road laws:)

Really enjoying what I have seen so but I am purposely holding back a bit since I would like to really wait until 1st patch released comes out this weekend, although I haven't seen anything game breaking.....when I did the soup kitchen bit, I was thinking to myself, are they really going to make me hand out soup...and of course it did. So far, glad I purchased and from what I have seen so far, this likely will be one of the few games I actually complete.

JudgeDredd · October 08, 2016, 03:11:52 AM

I can't remember if you mentioned GR - but did you play and complete the previous 2?

There are links between those (1 & 2) and they are absolutely superb.

Grim.Reaper · October 08, 2016, 03:41:46 AM

Only played version 2....I wasn't into the series when the first version came out and don't think it was readily available by the time I did.

JudgeDredd · October 08, 2016, 04:44:39 AM

There was a very cool link between 1 & 2 which I won't give away in case you ever get it.

The graphics are dated, but the music, gameplay and story override that issue ten fold - and that's coming from someone who hates going back to old games - good or bad - because the graphics are so poor.

I would easily fire up Mafia 1 again if I had the time. It's a superb game.

In fact...... >:D

Grim.Reaper · October 08, 2016, 04:46:50 AM

Quote from: JudgeDredd on October 08, 2016, 04:44:39 AM
There was a very cool link between 1 & 2 which I won't give away in case you ever get it.

The graphics are dated, but the music, gameplay and story override that issue ten fold - and that's coming from someone who hates going back to old games - good or bad - because the graphics are so poor.

I would easily fire up Mafia 1 again if I had the time. It's a superb game.

In fact...... >:D

Main problem was couldn't find it for download anymore.....think saw on ebay/amazon for physical copy, but can't recall the last physical copy of anything I have bought:)